%0 Journal Article
%T Fiction haunted by the past/the past haunted by fiction: the spectres of the Great War in Douze lettres d’amour au soldat inconnu by Olivier Barbarant and Visites aux vivants by Cathie Barreau
%A Sadkowski, Piotr
%J Cahiers ERTA
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/23538953CE.19.013.10698
%N Numéro 18
%P 61-73
%K trauma ; Grande Guerre, perte, spectralité, trauma, Great War, loss, spectrality
%@ 2300-4681
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/la-fiction-hantee-par-le-passe-le-passe-hante-par-la-fiction-les-spectres-de-la-grande-guerre-dans-douze-lettres-damour-au-soldat-inconnu-dolivier-bar-barant-et-visites-aux-vivants-de-cathie-barreau
%X The return of the theme of the Great War in literature imposes on the contemporary reader a double heritage: that of grief and guilt. The postmemory rediscovery of loss is therefore accompanied by a prise de conscience of forgetting or indifference, in family memory and History, in relatoon to war’s anonymous victims. In the fiction compared in this paper, Douze lettres au soldat inconnu by Olivier Barbarant and Visites aux vivants by Cathie Barreau, loss is thematized by deconstructing the specter of the Great War. The two authors attempt to libertate the specters from the aura of anxiety, on the one hand in the hope of taming the past, on the other to give voice, as well individual integrity, to the forgotten subjects of the Great War.